No Satellite A300 - 16I Conexant soundcard no hardware buffering?

Hi all

I recently bought a Satellite A300-16I (PSAJ4E). I downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP Pro and installed all the drivers from the site Web of Toshiba driver for Win XP for this model.

Everything works fine, except the Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221 sound card can be run in software mode, according to a test of DirectX. It is said that it can not access the material buffer.
Now all Windows system seems to sound like they are read at a sample rate different (about 1 semitone lower) they should sound.
Also, when I play music on the built-in harman/kardon speakers, the sound has cracks and jumps into it and you can hear the speakers of the difficulty to play.

As I remember, the sound was much better with the Vista driver when this OS was still installed.

I tried a lot of things. Installed different versions of the sound driver from different sites, no luck.
I'm running SP3, and I noticed a patch of Windows (KB888111) for SP2 that installs the Bus High Definition Audio. So I uninstalled SP3 and tried the hotfix, no luck.
Also let Windows install the driver itself did not work, and there is no update driver on Windows Update.

Any help is appreciated :)

Kind regards

Mano

Sorry, but I want to clarify something. What you hear with * the sound was much better with the Vista driver when this OS was installed yet *? Much better? Do you mean the sound was good or what?

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